Kelsea Ballerini Spends Christmas Break In The Studio

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

December 20th, 2023 1:40 PM

Kelsea Ballerini is working on a new record during Christmas week and holiday break. While details are slim, Kelsea posted a video clip to her Insta Stories this week of a friend getting into a car as Ballerini sits in the passenger seat and films.

Kelsea says, “Guys, the entire next record is simply fueled by Mitchell’s turkey and avocado sandwiches. This is the only thing we are eating while working on the record. That is the only vibe… extra pickles.”

Meanwhile, on her Instagram, she posted a video of her mixing drinks for Christmas while singing a fun Christmas tune. She captioned the clip, “Dashing through the snow, this year was a slay. Let’s drink espresso martinis made the @theoriginaldonutshop coffee wayyy. #theoriginaldonutshoppartner.”

See that post here.

Speaking of the Christmas holiday, Ballerini has done a Christmas song or two over the years, including a performance a few years back at the CMA Country Christmas ABC TV special, where she sang the sultry “Santa Baby” as if it was a song written for her.

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Kelsea took fan questions on her Insta Stories recently and got rather frank with her following when asked if she would do a Jonas Brothers collaboration. She revealed that she was initially featured on the group’s “Strong Enough.” The song now features Baily Zimmerman.

She responded to the fan’s question, “To be so honest, I was on ‘Strong Enough’ but did indeed get replaced haha haha, but Bailey is sick.”

In 2016, she and Nick Jonas performed her song “Peter Pan” on the ACM Awards show, where he played a guitar solo that critics panned. Later, he told the media that the performance “sent him to therapy.”

Ballerini has made so secret of the fact that she is a huge Jonas Brothers fan and even opened shows on their tour in 2021.

Bailey and the Jonas Brothers posted about the new song on Instagram. They captioned a video clip of the video, #StrongEnough at @collegegameday (fire emoji).”

See that post here.

5 Country Stars Who Can't Get Enough Of Christmas

• Brett Eldredge

  Brett’s 2016 Christmas album Glow was so popular that he now tours each Christmas and sells out venues nationwide. His nickname is “Mr. Christmas.” He told me not long ago about a Christmas favorite song, “Blue Christmas…Elvis is king, and Elvis knows how to make you feel heartbreak. Also, with this song, he combines both and just the longing to want him to have that person with you, and if you don’t have that person with you, now around Christmas, it won’t be the same. And it’s kind of a country song in the deep depths of it, so I thought it was a perfect song for the album.”

• Reba

  Reba starts celebrating the Christmas holiday the day after Halloween. She has released three Christmas albums in her career, and in 2021, she even starred in a Lifetime TV movie along with Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider called Christmas In Tune. In a recent interview, Reba told me about what she once got as a teen in Oklahoma for a Christmas gift. She said, “Mama would always give me and Suzy the same gift in different colors. One year, it was an overnight case, like a makeup case. Mine was blue, and Suzy’s was white. Mama kept it for years underneath her vanity.”

• Kelly Clarkson

  Clarkson has released two Christmas albums. Wrapped In Red came out in 2013 and the second, When Christmas Comes Around, was released in 2021. She also sings Christmas songs throughout December on her talk show. Chris Stapleton, Brett Eldredge, Trisha Yearwood, and Reba have appeared on her Christmas albums.

• Dolly Parton

  Dolly loves Christmas time and has released three Christmas albums so far. The country icon even has a special night each year for all her nieces and nephews. She told me about their special family event, “They come to my house, and we have cookie night every year. We have for years and years and years. I dress up like Santa Claus, like Grammy Claus. I have an elevator in my house, and I have it painted like a chimney. So I go up and get presents from upstairs, then I come down the chimney in my suit. I just can’t wait to do that with them.”

• Carrie Underwood

  Carrie released a Christmas album in 2020 and recently released a deluxe version of the project. She even sang Christmas songs in her Las Vegas residency shows in December. I have talked many times with Underwood about her Christmas memories. In one of those interviews, she told me, “We would walk up and down the halls and sing Christmas carols. I mean, we sang, ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,’ we sang ‘Silent Night,’ we sang, just all those songs that everybody knows, and it was just a really cool thing that we did. I really wish we still did it. We quit when my grandma got sick. It’s really easy to forget about people during that time of year ’cause there’s so much going on, and it was a really cool thing that we did. We’d go to the nursing home and bring a little Christmas cheer with us.”

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